Design & Plan your wedding

I have said this so many times already, it feels like it has become too obvious to mention again, but planning a wedding is a lot of work. Even when you want to keep things small and simple, you will soon realize that it entails more than you might have originally thought.

Every once in a while though, you need to realize that you are planning this wedding because you have found someone whom you would like to spend the rest of your life with, and spending some quality time with just the two of you will be a welcome break in the planning process.

Imagine you walking around town with the love of your life, on your way to your dinner reservation on this beautiful and romantic day, lights all around, happiness and laughter radiating from all those other couples who are celebrating their love on a day like this.

You arrive on the town's square where a small band of musicians is playing. You stop to listen and your partner wraps their arms around your waist while you both get wrapped up in the beauty of the music, the closeness between you two, and the sense that this, right here, is exactly where the two of you are meant to be. Together. Simply being. Enjoying each other's presence...

What happens when you combine a traditional theme like a 'Christmas wedding' with a minimalist design style? You get a high-end, chique design in all-whites with lovely Christmas touches that add a little warmth to it all. Want a reminder why I absolutely love myself a winter wedding? Don't look any further!

Don’t you just love the end-of-year holidays? All those twinkling lights, Christmas decorations everywhere (at least where I live), fireworks, people generally being nicer and happier, the time you get to spend with the people you love most,…

So how can you channel the holiday feeling to re-ignite your wedding planning?

As we all have seen, the holiday season is swiftly approaching. Dreaded by some, much looked forward to by others. When you’re busy planning your wedding, planning for the holidays is just another thing to add to your long list of things to do. So how do you go about planning your wedding in this busy period while still being able to enjoy the time you can spend with your family and loved ones? Well, it might be easier than you might think.

When it comes to styling a winter wedding, there are so many directions you can go. You can opt for a more traditional Christmas-style wedding with lots of white, a touch of red, with red Christmas berries and holly. Or you can opt for a minimalist Scandinavian style with white on white, geometric shapes and marble touches. Or you can go with the style displayed in my Dark Rustic Winter Wedding Moodboard, and use lots of black and white, touches of green by using eucalyptus and some gold touches in the cutlery and on the stationery.

Don’t we all just love seeing those fur-babies popping up in weddings? At the beginning of the year, you could see more and more small dogs make their appearance in weddings as ring-bearers or just with cute accessories that would fit the whole wedding style. But how could you incorporate other pets that may not be as domestic or as easy to handle as a small dog?

Well, these three wedding and engagement sessions have been able to incorporate their favourite pets despite the fact that they are not the most traditional ones.

As we slowly move towards the holiday season, we are reminded of all the goals we had set for this past year. The ones we completed and, more often, the ones we didn’t. Goals like losing weight, spending more time with family and friends, goals that will help us to finally reach that much sought-after balance in our lives, goals that will help us make a difference in this world, …

After the excitement of your engagement begins to wane, and the beginning stages of wedding planning are in full swing, it is all too common to begin feeling mentally stressed. There is so much to do and so little time at the end of the day. Take a deep breathe and know it doesn’t have to be this way. With a solid project management system in place, straightening out your priorities and a heaping dose of self care, I know you can make it to the other end of the planning process in one calm and fairly centered piece.

My favourite wedding designs are the ones inspired by something very non-traditional but that have managed to hold on to the chique look that fits a wedding so well. When I saw this beautiful wedding, shot by Cacá Santoro Photography, for the first time, I knew that I had stumbled on a masterpiece!

You can find so much information in magazines, on blogs, on Pinterest and other social media that you get completely lost and you don't know how to actually start planning your wedding. Well, I'm here to rescue you! Below, you can find the 5 first steps you need to do first when planning your wedding.

When you just get engaged, you will undoubtedly be looking into wedding fairs. While you may find that some are more traditional, and others are more directed to modern bridal couples.

In this day and age, you are already influenced a lot by online services like Pinterest, so trying to keep true to your original wedding idea can be quite hard facing so many different (international) options. Going to a wedding fair will have the same effect, and can potentially blow up your list of ideas and your budget. So today, I want to help you with some general tips on how to make the most of wedding fairs, without losing track of your original budget and ideas.

Don’t be afraid to do your wedding your way simply because it’s not “how it’s supposed to be”

... What I am trying to get at here, is that I got it! I understood why he didn’t think there was any value in getting married, and as my bubbly optimistic self, I didn’t realize what was causing him to think like this until it was almost too late. He thought that getting married, to me, was all about the decorations and flowers and wedding cake and having a nice dress, and less about the person you were marrying...

Bridal stories

Every month, The Wedding Boutique shares a story of a bride who had an intimate and personal wedding. These brides are sharing how they made their wedding fit their personality, they are sharing their struggles and they are sharing their most beautiful moments.

I hope you will walk away feeling strengthened by these stories in the knowledge that you are not in this alone and you can use their experiences to help you plan your wedding your way.